about transition circle east

Welcome to the Transition Circle East blog where you can find all the news and reviews about Transition initatives in the Eastern Region.

We started at the Transition East second gathering in Diss in November 2009 where 18 of the region's Transition villages, towns, cities and bio-regions came together to discuss how communities can shift from living in fossil-fuelled culture to a low-carbon way of working.

29 initatives are listed below, as well as some of the events that are currently taking place in and around Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

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Saturday, 14 November 2009

Stour Valley, Essex/Suffolk

Bio-region: pop. 7,434Timeline: Started February ‘09

Transition Valley had their first meeting on the snowiestevening of the year when 9 people turned up resilientlyto start this burgeoning initiative. They have recentlybranched out from their core group and started Communicationsand Heart and Soul groups. The Communications group have foundeda very active blog, while the Heart and Soul group is concentratingon engaging with the slower and steadier pace of Transition.

One of their most successful events has been the Great FoodSwap which formed part of the local Beach Bash.Swaps are now part of their repertoire (even the groups’children are organising their own toy swap). They show regularfilms, such as Power of Community and In Transition, and haverecently been awarded funding from the Dedham Vale AONB fora series of workshops called Reskilling the Valley.

At the heart of the initiative, like Transition itself, is the practiceof Permaculture. A permaculture course is presently being runby horticulturalist Marina O’Connell, one of the core members.Transition Valley are also presently working with a local primaryschool to become a Transition School.